District of Columbia Kratom Legal Status Update

While 7-hydroxymitragynine, a kratom component, is classified as a Schedule I controlled substance by D.C. regulations, kratom itself is not universally banned by statute, indicating a restricted rather than fully banned status for the entire substance.

A legislative analysis from April 2025 indicates that D.C. regulations classify 7-hydroxymitragynine as a Schedule I controlled substance, but explicitly notes that the legal status appears unclear as kratom and its psychoactive compounds are not scheduled in the D.C. statute. Other sources, less official, explicitly state it is legal. The distinction between a component being a Schedule I substance by regulation and the overall substance not being banned by statute suggests a 'RESTRICTED' status for the substance as a whole, rather than an outright 'BANNED' status, which was the original input.

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